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Article #15AW5X: QT3 problem w/ AW5 packaged for Mac
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:00
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After some effort, I've finally gotten a Windows-developed AW5 piece packaged on a Macintosh (with the Authorware 5.0 Mac Player - 5.0 b1 F2 public beta). The only remaining problem I have is that when Quicktime 3 videos are displayed on a Mac they're "stretched" from top to bottom ... rather than at the 240 x 180 frame size they were intended to be they appear to be something along the lines of 300 x 180. All of the videos are using the "Scale" framing option. If I use the "Crop" framing option the video and controller are cropped on the left and right and the user can't control the video properly. I'm using the "Direct to Stage" and "Show Controller" options. I'm not calling any of the sprite properties. Any advice would be appreciated. By the way, this may be common knowledge, but ... If anyone is having problems with getting videos stored in a separate folder to display after packaging it for a Mac, try renaming the relative path in the Windows piece like this ":Videos:xxx.mov" rather than "\Videos\xxx.mov" or "Videos\xxx.mov". NOTE: You have to preface the path with a leading ":". It'll still play on the Windows version, and the path will also be understood by Macs I've emailed Macromedia about this and hope they'll make a fix to this on the next version of the Mac Player/Packager. Big thanks, Doug
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